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WORLD NEWS Friday 30 November 2018

Greek high school unrest amid fears of far-right resurgence

By COSTAS KANTOURIS children, are common in is openly involved in orga-
NICHOLAS PAPHITIS Greece where all political nizing the unrest, which
Associated Press parties encourage teenag- spreads through social me-
THESSALONIKI, Greece ers to be politicized. dia platforms.
(AP) — Led by a horseman But Thursday's demonstra- Officials say teenagers
draped in a Greek flag, tion, preceded by days closed down 210 of a total
about 1,200 high school of unrest in northern high 604 high schools in Thessa-
students marched through schools over relations with loniki and neighboring ar-
the northern city of Thes- Macedonia, has stoked eas, some for several days,
saloniki on Thursday to pro- worries that the extreme in opposition to a proposed
test government efforts to far-right, which shot up in deal to normalize Greece's
end a three-decade-old support during Greece's fi- relations with Macedonia.
dispute with neighboring nancial crisis, is gaining in- The agreement would see
Macedonia. fluence among teenagers. Macedonia rename itself
Protesters waved Greek A teenager holds, a flag with the Star of Vergina, the This week, Education Min- "North Macedonia" and
flags, shouted slogans and emblem of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedonia, ister Costas Gavroglou ac- in return Greece will stop
displayed banners against cused the Nazi-inspired blocking its bids to join
Macedonia — and against during a protest in front of the White Tower, a landmark Golden Dawn party — the NATO and the European
another two neighboring of the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki, Thursday, fourth-strongest force in Union. Athens says the cur-
countries, Albania and Tur- Nov. 29, 2018. parliament — of "trying to rent name implies claims
key — amid rising concern Associated Press inject (its) nationalist poison on Greek territory — Thes-
over school infiltration by into schoolchildren." saloniki is the capital of the
nationalists and the ex- demonstrators shortly after- ed for public disturbance The party strongly backs Greek region of Macedo-
treme far-right. ward threw stones at po- offences. the school protests, while nia — and heritage.q
The march ended peace- lice, who fired tear gas to Protests, mostly against many protesters use Gold-
fully, but about a hundred disperse them. Four protest- state education policy by en Dawn slogans. Nobody
ers, all minors, were arrest- usually left-leaning school-

UN says millions misspent on Africa's biggest refugee crisis

By RODNEY MUHUMUZA refugees." Over-counting to requests for comment. and other failings, agency
Associated Press refugees to bring in more The new report echoes spokesman Babar Baloch
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — funding carries the risk of findings of an earlier told The Associated Press.
The United Nations refugee officials quietly pocketing investigation by the U.N. Action to address those
agency has misspent the difference. refugee agency that issues is already underway,
millions of dollars on Africa's More than a million indicated serious oversight he said.q
largest refugee crisis, South Sudanese fled to
including paying $320,000 neighboring Uganda after
for what became a parking fresh fighting broke out
lot at the Ugandan prime in July 2016, causing a
minister's office, an internal scramble by the U.N. and
inquiry says. other humanitarian actors
The new report by the to help them find food and
U.N.'s internal watchdog shelter.
says about $11 million Uganda has been
alone is now being spent praised internationally for
on a recount of the South welcoming refugees but
Sudanese who poured has faced scrutiny over
into Uganda, to weed corruption in the process.
out potentially hundreds Uganda's prime minister did
of thousands of "ghost not immediately respond

In this Friday, June 9, 2017 file photo, a section of the sprawling
complex of mud-brick houses and tents that makes up the Bidi
Bidi South Sudanese refugee settlement in northern Uganda.
Associated Press